Not as cliquish
(get it? clique-ish?) as the Dianas and way more reliable, the Agfa
Click-I camera takes 12 square images on 120 film. I bought this Click-I for
$2.99 at the Seattle Goodwill. It came with a nifty brown vinyl case & shoulder
strap.

I get this call from Orla at the
Raleigh-Durham News & Observer. She's writing a piece on traveling with toy
cameras. I call 'em junk, she calls 'em toys. That's okay. I'm trying to sound
professional and like I know what I'm doing and have a vision and stuff like
that, when I see the FedEx Ground truck pull up. Shit! I've been waiting for
those book covers! So I start to take the phone out to the driveway with me to
talk to her at the same time that I greet the FedEx guy. I completely forget
about THE DOG. THE DOG flies past me nearly knocking me over at the gate,
hackles up, giving her worst snarling dog imitation. This is the same dog who's
afraid of small kittens and benign sacks of flour sitting in the hallway. Her
vicious bark is blasting down the phone lines ... meanwhile the poor FedEx
driver is yelling, "Control your dog!" over and over and using the package as a
shield. Orla asks, "Would you like me to call you back?" Very embarrassing on a
lot of fronts. What I've found since then is that you can go
online and send apologies to FedEx drivers. Orla & I did speak again and
I think her piece is running in the October 29, 2005 issue of the paper. Anyway,
we talked about what I'd told her at the time was an Agfa Clack. Hold the
presses! I don't have a Clack! It's a Click! And a Click-I to be exact. Oh well.
I emailed her back, but my email never seems to get through to anyone anymore.

Made in Germany, the Agfa Click-I sports an
internal yellow filter along with both cloudy and sunny settings. There is no
"b" setting. The Click-I feels good in my hands, and I can definitely do without
the vinyl case. The plastic viewfinder is somewhat accurate.

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